Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr.is an American former professional boxer and current boxing promoter. Widely considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, undefeated as a professional, and a five-division world champion, Mayweather won twelve world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He is a two-time winner of The Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award, a three-time winner of the Boxing Writers Association of AmericaFighter of the Year award, and a six-time winner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth24 February 1977
CountryUnited States of America
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations.
Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.
You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to.
I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
There is no fighter smarter than me.
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.